aziz
Power User
I went and bought myself new Genelecs. I decided to check out my room with a measurement mic to check out what frequencies are the worst in my room, it helps with positioning and adjusting the speakers. (They have several dip switches to adjust the bass and treble frequencies in various ways.) Well, I don't live in an acoustically treated studio room, so the room modes are just as horrendous as they look:
A graph like this makes it very easy to identify the problem areas. I made this a with a "Room EQ Wizard" -program, it is free and awesome! After measuring the graph, you can go ahead and play a sine wave by moving your mouse along the graph and re-confirm the huge peaks and valleys with your own ears.
What does this have to do with Axe2? Well, I did the measurements by connecting mic pre to the Axe. And wait, it gets better! After measuring the response, you can go ahead and get suggestions from the program, basically it tells you the exact EQ values for removing the worst problem peaks. I use the Axe as my soundcard anyway, so now, naturally, I just plug these into two PEQ-blocks in the Axe, and now I have a room EQ correction that I guess would be very similar to what a real DSP-series Genelec speaker with the accompanying measuring program would give. The difference is quite big, the offending mush boom from the 60 and 120hz is gone, resulting in better clarity in any music. Of course, a better way would be to move into a bigger house/room and add a few cubic yards of bass-absorbing material in the room... But this way I too can fit into the room instead of filling it with acoustic wool!
A graph like this makes it very easy to identify the problem areas. I made this a with a "Room EQ Wizard" -program, it is free and awesome! After measuring the graph, you can go ahead and play a sine wave by moving your mouse along the graph and re-confirm the huge peaks and valleys with your own ears.
What does this have to do with Axe2? Well, I did the measurements by connecting mic pre to the Axe. And wait, it gets better! After measuring the response, you can go ahead and get suggestions from the program, basically it tells you the exact EQ values for removing the worst problem peaks. I use the Axe as my soundcard anyway, so now, naturally, I just plug these into two PEQ-blocks in the Axe, and now I have a room EQ correction that I guess would be very similar to what a real DSP-series Genelec speaker with the accompanying measuring program would give. The difference is quite big, the offending mush boom from the 60 and 120hz is gone, resulting in better clarity in any music. Of course, a better way would be to move into a bigger house/room and add a few cubic yards of bass-absorbing material in the room... But this way I too can fit into the room instead of filling it with acoustic wool!